Subject: Re: Two-stage netboot
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/01/1999 11:34:23
simonb@netbsd.org said:
> I haven't tried myself, but I believe Matthias Drochner had some
> (very?) limited success.

The second stage could configure the network with bootp/dhcp,
so the network stack worked in principle. (DS '240)
The problem was that it didn't see any ARP replies later.
I don't have real documentation on the PROM - perhaps the
ARP packets are eaten up there...

best regards
Matthias